Beyond Gaussians: A study of single-spot modeling for scanning proton dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 983-997

  Li, Yupeng ^a   Zhu, Ronald X ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Anand, Aman ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM ENERGIES; DOSE CALCULATION; FIELD SIZE; GAUSSIANS; HIGH-ENERGY BEAMS; HOUSTON; LOW DOSE; MEASURED DATA; MODELING COMPONENT; MODELING PARAMETERS; PATIENT DOSE; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; PROPER MODELING; PROTON DOSE; PROTON THERAPY; SPOT SCANNING; TOTAL DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

SCANNING;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84863149153     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/4/983     Document Type: Article

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